Little Sounds

Below is a new video of Kavi, but first, a story!

Earlier this evening, Kavi was fussy! Food? No, he was fed not too long ago. Diapers? No, he was just changed...what could it be? Only Kavi knows. Part of the whole baby thing, some things are just mysteries that will never be known!

Tonight, Nisha and I had a very revealing look at what kind of parents we're going to be.
In the later part of the evening, Kavi gets to be bottle fed at 9:30pm. No biggie, we've done really well the past few times, piece of cake, right? Let me set this up: Kavi does his bottle feeding, and in the event that he doesn't finish his full dosage, he has to be tube fed. And now that he's getting more developed, the gag muscles are coming in, so tube feeding has a rough entry and ending. So suffice it to say, it is in all of our interest for Kavi to finish his full dosage to avoid the tube!

Oh by the way, his weight is now 3 lbs, 11 oz, and the doctor upped his feed dosage today to 38 ml.

So we went through our typical ritual of getting him ready to eat (see previous post). He downs the first 10 ml in one minute! He starts getting drowsy, and gets in about 8-10 more ml. Then he falls asleep! Argh! We DO NOT want him to be tube fed! So we try every trick in the book to get him up and finish the other half of his feed. But the thing is, it's a balance act on how you do this - if you don't do enough, he's down for the count. If you do too much, his body shuts down because of overload, and, he's down for the count! So you have to be patient, do something, then lay off, do another thing, lay off, and repeat.

Seemed like everything we tried, he would not wake up. We burped him, lifted him up and down, tickled the roof of his mouth with the nipple, un-swaddled him, even lifted his shirt up to get the cold air, and after probably a good 15-20 minutes of this, he FINALLY awoke and finished the rest of his feed! *Whew*

So I think it lent an idea of what kind of parents we're going to be! We're probably going to be pushy parents! Yikes! But hopefully patient - because while we were pushy, we were patient, and didn't want to give up easily.

So anyways, in this video, I wanted to capture these little sounds Kavi makes when he drinks. I think the sound conveys, "Yummy, this is good, I like this a lot." He makes this little sound 4 times in a row, and then a 5th one followed by a screech. Turn your speakers up.